Fathers

2 Thessalonians 2

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Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, we ask you not to be quickly shaken in your mind, and not be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as if from us, saying that the day of Christ has already come. Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction, he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God. Don’t you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things? Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season. For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way. Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming; even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie; that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth, to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. So then, brothers, stand firm and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word or by letter. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

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2 Thessalonians 2:5

Eastern Fathers

John Chrysostom

"Remember ye not, that when I was yet with you, I told you these things?" Seest thou that it is necessary continually to say the same things, and to enlarge upon them in the same words? For behold, they heard him saying these things when present, and again they had need to be reminded of them. …

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Theophylact of Ohrid

From this it is clear that the apostle transmitted great mysteries to the Thessalonians, and not in writing. Do you see that it is necessary to constantly speak about the same thing, to persistently repeat the same words? Here they heard the apostle speaking about this when he was among them, and yet again they had need of confirmation. Nothing extraordinary am I saying, he says, but the same thing I have always said. The apostle somewhat shames the Thessalonians, saying: "do you not remember?" Have you forgotten so quickly?

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Western Saints

Thomas Aquinas

Then when he says, "do you not remember", he shows that he is writing nothing new, as though to say: when I was with you long ago, I said this. "I do not write a new command for you, but an old command, which you have had from the beginning" (2 John 5); "as we are in word by epistles when absent, such also we will be indeed when present" (2 Cor 10:11).

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